Gardaí deploy armed units as feud intensifies

EXTRA armed garda patrols were deployed in Limerick yesterday as hostilities flared between two feuding gangs who have used a grenade and automatic firearms in recent attacks.

The notorious fighting between the Keane Collopy and Ryan McCarthy Dundon gangs saw a 16-year-old boy wounded in one gun attack on Thursday night.

The widows of two murdered gang leaders on opposing sides have also been singled out in shootings in the early hours of yesterday morning.